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Good point. I don't even count Diver Down as an album, really. I was thinking Fair Warning, II, and Women and Children First as better than 1984.
I despise Diver Down. It is the only Roth VH album I have never owned and never will own. There are some decent songs on there but it has a way of annoying me like few albums do.
I met Michael Anthony at a party in Florida in the early nineties. He was nice and friendly. He took the high road when Eddie replaced him in the band with his son Wolfgang. Michael said he didn't quit, he was replaced. He found out about it during a press conference that Eddie and Alex did. Sammy and Michael formed a couple bands together in the last few years such as Chickenfoot and the more recent Sammy Hagar and The Circle.
From 8th grade thru college every year I’d doodle these pictures of band names, like Blind melon would be a watermelon with sunglasses holding a cane (as I type this it feels very poli-incorrect) or Stone temple pilots would be a pyramid with wings with a couple stick guys with the old leather pilots helmets on. The whole front of my notebook would be covered. I wish I had a picture- I’m not a skilled artist, but it was fun to look at and try to guess what band was what. Chili peppers were just chili peppers, Van Halen was a van driving in a hailstorm. Each one in about a 1 1/2” square. Sometimes it was something related to the band (Pink Floyd was the dark side cover, ween was the ween smiley thing) but usually it was just like a zepplin or something literal.
Arguably their best song. It's not as Eddie heavy as a lot of other songs due to the heavy use of keyboards, but his solo on top of the keys is one of my favorite parts of music.
He used to keep a keyboard next to the toilet. You never know when inspiration will strike, man!
Free Man in Paris is the song that resonates most with my early years, but Carey soars a little higher.
"What do you think the teacher's gonna look like this year? (Giant butt!)"
Panama just came up on my gym playlist this morning. It's aged just fine.
1984 and Synchronicity were two of the best albums of the 80's. Saw the 1984 concert during the big arena rock era. I remember it vividly. It was so freakin loud that my brother vomited after the show, on the way back to the car. And my dad has had tinnitus ever since.
Such a great beginning to Decline of Western Civilization, the documentary. Did you know that Exene is a little bit off these days and took her guns and left California to move to Texas or something like that?
She was always strange. She’s one of those who believes that some of the mass shootings are false flag operations designed to seize guns. Oh well.
Great, great, great record. Seminal west coast punk album (although to be fair their sound was really more eclectic indie rock punctuated with a bit of noise and weird lyrics). And their presence in Decline of Western Civilization (along with Black Flag) turns that film from an entertaining snapshot of the time into an essential rock and roll documentary.
Exene has MS - it's been taking a bit of a toll. She had moved to Jefferson City Missouri area - to a farm not too far from Lake of the Ozarks with her sister. I haven't talked to her in a while about the MS specifically but do ask here how's she's feeling generally when I do see her. One of the reasons I miss living in Denver because X and John show up there on a regular basis. Maybe Eephus knows a bit more since he or his wife may have spoken with her more recently.
Wow, I didn't know somebody knew her here. Never assume. I just remember some interviews that seemed a bit off, you know. Such a pioneer in the punk movement. Best to her.
I saw X perform in early September, and Exene looked and sounded great. She appeared to be having fun and feeling good. Hopefully she truly was.
